Steve Goodier Wisdom: Losing the Dead Part

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

I am discovering that many people want, above all else, to live life fully. But sometimes the past prohibits our living and enjoying life to the utmost in the present.

A schoolteacher entered his room a few minutes early and noticed a mealworm laboriously crawling along the floor. It had somehow been injured. The back part of the worm was dead and dried up, but still attached to the front, living part by just a thin thread. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Pushers and Pullers

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

One woman tells of a time her dog disappeared. After searching diligently, she placed a “lost dog” ad in the local newspaper.

The following morning her phone rang and a weak, cracking voice began, “I’m calling about your dog.” Then the caller coughed and cleared her voice a few times. She explained that she wasn’t feeling well and that, in fact, she had not felt well since her husband’s death three years ago. She went on to relate that her parents, too, had passed away since then and her sister was diagnosed with a fatal ailment. Even her friends, she continued, were not doing well, and she gave details of their various maladies and described the funerals of several of them. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: The Way We See It

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

The eye doctor instructed her patient to read a chart on the wall. He looked at it and read, “A, B, F, N, L and G.”

The doctor turned the light back on and wrote in her notebook. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: The Richest Person in the World

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

I will always remember Stella. Elderly, blind and living alone, one might think she should have spun long tales of hardship and misery. And I suppose she could have told such stories, but she made little room in her life for self-pity. She might have mentioned the deaths of friends and family, including her husband; the glaucoma that finally claimed her eyesight; the small pension on which she was forced to subsist and the arthritis that kept her homebound in a little trailer house. And nobody could blame her had she despaired that she had grown so dependent on others.

She never did lament about all her hardships, either past or present. But I frequently recall her enumerating her good fortune. Speaking of her son, she often said: “My Jimmy came to see me today. He’s so good to me!” Of her friends, she often commented: “I’ve been talking on the phone all morning. I’m so thankful I have such good friends.” Then, with a broad smile and a slap on her knee, she would invariably exclaim, “I’m the richest person in the world!” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Who is Landing Your Plane?

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

I heard a funny story: A small plane with an instructor and student on board hit the runway and bounced repeatedly until it came to a stop. The instructor turned to the student and said, “That was a terrible landing you just made.”

“Me?” replied the student. “I thought you were landing!” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Just a Dime

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Can one dime make a difference? Here is a woman who turned a dime into millions of dollars.

Her name was Martha Berry. This clever woman founded the Berry School in Rome, Georgia. She scraped together funds from every source possible. One day she approached Henry Ford, of Ford automobile fame, and asked for a contribution. Patronizingly, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a dime. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: So You Made a Mistake?

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

The obituary editor of a city newspaper was not one who would admit his mistakes easily. One day, he got a phone call from an irate subscriber who complained that her name just appeared in the obituary column. “Really?” was the calm reply. “Where are you calling from?”

There is no shame in making mistakes. They are an important and necessary part of learning. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Good Friends Are Good Medicine

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Our news is constantly filled with the reality of death and dying. And each of us, if we live long enough, experiences the loss of persons we loved.

Children ages eight through ten were asked what they thought about death, and these are some of their answers: Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Laughing Matter

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

According to psychologist William James, we do not laugh because we are happy. But rather, we are happy because we laugh. The happiest people alive are those who know how to laugh often and well.

In his book A TOUCH OF WONDER, Arthur Gordon tells of a friend of his who knew about laughter. Though deaf and almost blind, he went right on working, laughing and making the most of his life. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Follow Your Stars

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

“Learn to say no,” said Charles Spurgeon. “It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”

One educator used to say that no society can last long unless it has a quorum of “unpurchasable people.” These are people of principle who cannot be bought; people who have learned to say no. I believe that these so-called unpurchasable people are the truly contented and fulfilled souls around us. Read more

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